I've come out of retirement to comment on about Bill Maher's movie Religiosity or something like that. He stated something to the effect that most religious people are stupid. I partially agree with him, but in this sense. Most mainstream people make statements out of ignorance, including religious people. However, look at who he is interviewing. He is not interviewing noted theologians, priests, bishops, pastors.

Of course in the mainstream people always say what the feel instead of what they can prove. They always lack the empirical evidence. For instance when it come to voting for OBAMA, all I hear is because he wants to change and because he is black and they want to help him make history. They don;t talk about his voting record or his accomplishments.

Faith does not oppose reason, and when people think that is does it is because they are taking their evidence out of context.

For instance, Atheist. They claim they do not believe in God because God cannot be proven. It is like a kaleidoscope, if you only look at one prism and color, you miss out on the entire content of the kaleidoscope. Take all information and form your own opinion. Of course an atheist who solely trusts science is going to say that, if they don't believe in the supernatural or mysticism, same as the fundamentalist who takes the bible literally and does not understand that the bible is a book of faith, not solely history. There are many literary devices going on in the bible. You have to take it on faith, and if an atheist says he does not have faith he is full of crap. He has faith that when he gets in his car, it will start. He has faith that when he gets to a stop light, most people will obey the rules of the road, or he would never get in his car in the first place.

So, instead of making this a blog about attacking, lets have an open discussion before pegging all religious people as zealots and nuts. There are very articulate and learned people who are scientists, politicians, teachers, and journalist. There are even priests who are scientist in the field of stem cell research (skin cell, not stem cell). Those are the people that need to address the religious attacks and questions you may have, instead of assuming that all religious people have faith without reason.

So my new blog will be Faith and Reason. Please ask me questions about the Catholic Church and its teachings. I will explain any misconception or stereotypes, or answer genuine questions. There is just to much division and this is my way of at least shedding some light and educating people, not judging and things of that nature.